Interesting...

[Ghost Dancer]

I started drifting 15 years ago in the boondocks of Japan and now they have story on it on cnnsi.. wow.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/the_bonus/04/26/drifting/index.html

[CaoBoY]

i guess more police want to know about drifting, so the media is catching on with this new 'hype'. oh well. its been going mainstream for a while, just sucks that they have to shed light on more 'illegal' aspects of canyon running ( people have been doing that long before drifting) and drifting the 'touges', rather than go out and do articles on sanctioned competitions.

[d*star180]

They called Hachis Celicas, and Mistook the Drift Alliance as the Drift Association...It seemed way too emotional and Initial D fanboyish underdog story.Kinda really corny...but entertaining nontheless.

[FaLKoN240]

Good read, not much else. The whole drift team thing makes us look like a bunch of wannabe slick back hair hot rod racers or something.

[Maeda]

Hot rodders have more pride and integrity then lame ass 'drift' crews that represnet and spoil everything by making good with si.

Fuck them.

[blu808]

That gives us a positive outlook. :ghey: :doh: :doh: :doh:

Fucking press.

[breakindrifts]

WTF they mentioned streets that I live on.

The story seemed interesting until it got all dramatic and initial-d like, what the fuck was that. The author could have been factual at least, I mean "90 mph entry" on touge? BULLSHIT, most pro drivers can't do 90 on irwindale.

S13's better go up in value after all this shit.

[S13SilviaGirl]

OMG, my head hurts from reading that crap...seriously, who do they hire as their editor? and who hired that guy to write for them?!!?!?


and YES I AM emailing the editor for printing that crap...join me why don't you?

[email protected] ...yes this e-mail is available on the SI website....

*Edit* e-mail just sent, we shall see what the man has to say...

[spdfreek0o]

In 1984 Keiichi Tsuchiya, a stock car driver in the Japanese domestic car series, was running last in a race and decided to show off a few tricks he recalled from driving with friends in the canyons around Osaka. He pitched the rear of his car out on the turns and got sideways. The crowd went crazy, and video of the race was circulated throughout Japan. When a reporter later asked what he was doing, he replied, "Drifting."
I did a report on this, pretty interesting to see it on SI.com

In its outlaw ethos and risk-taking swagger, drifting may be the postmillennial reincarnation of Junior Johnson and Bob Flock running cat roads in the hills of North Carolina and Georgia and inadvertently midwifing NASCAR.

Sounds like a catchy commercial. "Drifting, the next NASCAR!"

[Ghost Dancer]

Excuse my ignorance of the US drifting "scene"... so the end of the article with the "challenge" was pretty fabricated? lol.

Didn't know it was that rivalrous over there. Everybody is pretty friendly with one another here and I have yet to see a "Touge" challenge. Everybody just drifts up the mountain. Turns around and drifts back down. Every once in a while you'll see a team go up together but usually it's a mix of guys from different teams.

[S13SilviaGirl]

^^It isn't, only stupid kids 'challenge' each other in anything car related...I have never heard of that crap, a good fictional story if you can get through it...

[projectRDM]

I love it. BS or not it's a great way to gain a negative outlook on a ghey, retarded sport that's causing our cars to get stolen left and right and bringing flocks of ignorant kids to the scene to ask the same stupid questions we answered 10 years ago. More power to them.

[Yuri]

I know Mark (the guy in the article) personally, and know Dori Saru (his group of friends). They are super cool guys, and I see them at every track event. I hear that the article was actually written over a year ago. I have never heard of them actually "drift racing" so I'm sure the journalist over dramatized the whole thing. Until someone from Dori Saru can come on here and give us the full story, I'd take everything in this article simply for it's entertainment value, and not flame anyone over it. (except maybe the journalist... AE86's are Celicas and Naoki is part of Drift Alliance....wtf... lol.)

[North240]

ha, the writers of initial D ought to be mad, this article rips off the story line from most of the first season. "Oh no better faster car, can tak and underpowered ae86 beat him?"

Why must the media overstate everything, then try and pass it off as fact? Its almost painfull to read. I'm still waiting for an article on midnight auto-xs that pits 40 year olds in vettes against 20 somethings in EF civics.

[NemeGuero]

I couldn't get through it... I started getting annoyed with this douche of a writer.

[infinitexsound]

what else is new? sometimes ppl just need to stfu.......

[Yuri]

Here's a short thread with quotes from the people featured in the article. It should shed some light on the whole issue.
http://www.drifting.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19311

[S13SilviaGirl]

I'd take everything in this article simply for it's entertainment value, and not flame anyone over it. (except maybe the journalist... AE86's are Celicas and Naoki is part of Drift Alliance....wtf... lol.)


Werd, that is why I was so pissed.haha. The writer sucked ass.

[BIG_T]

ohh come on guys..you are all missing the big picture of how good this article is...hahaha not! but anyway drifting better not become the next nascar! Nascar is way to boring...drifting is an art not some dumb circle race

[unwed_transient]

i couldn't get past the second page. my perception of the "scene" was not what the writer was depicting. an A+ load of crap.